And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more.
For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
The Scots Football Historians' Group
And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
The country was England. Scotland would be in receipt of the same lesson very soon after. The venue was Wembley. The date was 25th November 1953 in front of 105,000 spectators, a crowd that included the man, to whom the victors would give homage but who had remained in his homeland largely unrecognised. The style was based on the one he had employed so successfully in coaching Austria two decades earlier, one that he had learned two and half decades earlier still from mainly Scots, including R.C. Hamilton, Robert Cumming Hamilton, essentially the die from which the mould was cast. The man in the crowd was James "Jimmy" Hogan .......
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